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Friday, 9 February 2018

The Obama Administration Collusion with Russia and Iran.

In the
United States, as layers are peeled off disclosures of gross government abuses
that are becoming criminal in nature, the name of Barack Obama is repeatedly
being mentioned.

One would
have to be either political naïve, or politically biased, not to suspect that
the weaponization of the branches of his administration against his political
rivals was rampant.

We saw clear
signs of this with the IRS going after Obama’s conservative opponents. It is
amazing how many computer malfunctions occurred in government agencies from the
IRS to the FBI under an Obama Administration. These always resulted in the
disappearance of correspondence, emails, and other recriminating documents
that, when recovered under duress, showed clear cases of the misuse of power.

According to Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform,

Jason Chaffetz, 24,000 emails were destroyed after coming under
subpoena by the House Committee. In the
case of the IRS under Lois Lerner, their exposure pointed to the U.S. tax
authority targeting and harassing political opponents and conservative NGOs.

In this
case, President Obama tried to deflect the political nature of his IRS by
blaming the corrupt management on “crummy legislation.”

But now,
with the shocking revelations of criminal corruption at the highest level of
the FBI and Department of Justice over the circumstances that led four judges
of the secret FISA Court granting permits to spy on a political rival in the
American presidential election, the finger is not only pointing at Hillary
Clinton and the Democratic National Committee but at Barack Obama, the man who
occupied the Oval Office.

For those
unfamiliar with the background, particularly those who follow the American
mainstream media that studiously avoid reporting on the biggest scandal in
American political history, here are the headline points;

A salacious
and unverified dossier, prepared by a foreign agent, and paid for by the DNC
and the Clinton campaign team, was presented by the FBI to the covert FISA
Court for a warrant to spy on the Democrats political opponent.

When the FBI
applied, four times, for warrants to spy on Trump associates they failed to
inform the judge that the information was unverified and game from a foreign
agent or that it had been paid for by the DNC and the Clinton campaign to spy
on their political opponent. The FBI has
an obligation under law to preset verified information without withholding essential
facts from the judge. Yet this is precisely what the did.

The
scandalous report prepared by Christopher Steele included Russian Anti-Trump
disinformation that positioned the presidential candidate frolicking naked in a
Moscow hotel bedroom with Russian prostitutes and urinating on a bed once used
by Obama. This dossier, prepared by a garbage collection agency, Fusion GPs,
who pose as a commercial research and strategic intelligence firm based in
Washington DC, was bought and paid for by the DNC and the Hillary Clinton
presidential campaign HQ to the tune of $12 million, to dig up dirt on Trump.
Much of the information contained in this dossier was provided by Russian
sources as part of a Russian disinformation campaign against
presidential candidate, Donald Trump.

Yet, for over the year, the
Democrat-supporting media have been beating an empty drum of Trump collusion
with the Russians when the collusion was coming from their side of the
political divide.

New
revelations of uninvestigated Democratic-Russian connections drip almost daily
like drops of winter rain.

Adam Schiff,
Democratic Deputy ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee was caught
on tape responding to Russian pranksters pretending to have dirt on Trump including
having naked pictures that Putin had been aware of. Schiff’s response was “We will be back on
touch with you to make arrangements. I appreciate you reaching out to us.” When
his office was made aware of the hoax their excuse was that Schiff was
suspicious of the call.

Then high ranking
Democrat, Mark Warner, was exposed in negotiating with a lobbyist for a Russian
oligarch linked to organized crime to get access to the foreign agent,
Christopher Steele. Instead of doing it openly and officially, Warner suggested
having the meeting in London. As he texted the lobbyist, Adam Waldman with
close ties to Russian oligarchs and the Clintons, in February 2017, “We want
to do this right, private in London, don’t want to send a letter yet cuz if we
can’t get an agreement, wud rather not have a paper trail.”

Digging up dirt on a political opponent must
be done covertly, even I you are a high ranking senator.

Carter
William Page, an American petroleum industry consultant and, for a brief time, a
minor adviser to the Trump election team, became the target of an FBI warrant
to a FISA Court based on far-fetched allegations by the same foreign agent
Steele who, among other falsehoods, accused him of engineering an unlikely deal
in which Page would receive 12% of the value of the proposed sale of Russian
petro giant, Rosneft, if the US lifted its anti-Russian sanction imposed after
their incursions into the Ukraine. Such a charge was patently ridiculous. There
was no guarantee that Trump would lift the sanctions or that a discredited Page
would ever persuade Trump to do so. Also, the Rosneft sale would amount to more
than $12 billion and the Kremlin, who described Page as “an idiot,” would never
have trusted Page to complete such a deal. When the Trump team learned that Page was
under investigation by the FBI, they dropped him. After years of investigation
by the FBI, Page has not been charged with any treasonous activity.

The
shenanigans at the top of the FBI and DOJ are extraordinary. The revelations of
intense communications between two illicit lovers, Peter Strzok, a top FBI
investigator who not only worked to exonerate Hillary Clinton of clear criminal
activities but was also one of the lead investigators in the Trump-Russian
collusion farce, and Lisa Page, a top FBI lawyer and a key player in the
anti-Trump probe, are mind-blowing.

The link
between them is Andrew McCabe, the Deputy Director of the FBI who was forced to
resign over the revelations. All three were Clinton sycophants who plotted to
defy the will of the American people and attempt sedition to unseat an elected
president, with what they called their “insurance policy” in what was
considered the “unlikely” event that Trump was elected president.

The public
is being entertained with the ongoing release of unclassified FBI documents and
text messages between Strzok and Page that has sucked in other culprits in the
criminalization of the intelligence agency.
One of the revelation has caught former President Obama in a lie, and
maybe more.

In the
spring of 2016, Obama was asked if the public could have confidence that his
Administration would never tamper with any criminal investigation. He answered that “I guarantee that there
is no political interference in any investigation by the DOJ, FBI, in any case.
Full stop. Period!”

Obama
sounded definitive, but recently revealed documents show that this is blatantly
false.

In one
exchange between the FBI lovers, Lisa Page wrote on September 2, 2016, “POTUS
(President of the United States) wants to know everything we’re doing.”

What the FBI
was doing was spying on the opposition presidential campaign team based on
warrant fraudulently obtained on a salacious and unverified dossier paid for by
Obama’s DNC and the Clinton campaign team. A glaring case of political
sedition.

And then, on
February 7, 2018, another bombshell landed in the Senate Judiciary Committee
and House Intelligence Committee meeting when an FBI-CIA whistle-blower gave
explosive testimony on Russian criminal networks operating in the United States
s they attempted to aid and sustain Iran’s covert nuclear industry when the
Obama Administration approved the sale of 20% of American uranium mining rights
to Russia. Uranium is used both for peaceful energy and for the less peaceful
payload of a nuclear bomb.

The Obama
Administration, according to the informant, knew that Putin wanted to get his
hands on American uranium. They also knew that Russia was double dealing with
Iran, and yet nine Obama agencies, led by Hillary Clinton in the State
Department, went ahead and approved the deal.

One of the
conditions of the agreement was that the uranium would remain within America,
but they remained silent when it was exported first to Canada, then to Europe,
and then to unknown destinations.

The informant,
William Campbell, represented by lawyer, Victoria Toensing, testified because
he was furious that the Russians were bragging of their relationships with the
Clintons. He disclosed that when Bill Clinton travelled with a close friend to
Kazakhstan, which ended up with mining rights there, it was a shoe-in to get
the US deal with the Clintons help. This was enhanced with generous donations
to the Clinton Foundation by all concerned. When Campbell asked one of his FBI
contacts why the Obama Administration approved the Uranium One sale when the
FBI knew that the Russian Rosatom group was engaged in criminal activities he
was told, “It’s all politics!”

In truth it
was all politics for Obama, and all money for the Clintons.

The history
of liberty in America is strongly based on correct and ethical governmental
procedure. When procedure is corrupted liberty is in peril.

The
consequences for America when their intelligence and justice departments are
weaponized for political purposes against a political opponent is anarchy and
the death of democracy.

The question
needs to be asked, are there going to be consequences for a corrupt political
system aided by the FBI and the Department of Justices and abetted by a
compliant and sycophantic media?

More deals will
be forthcoming in the coming days and weeks. The final shoe to fall will be the
report on the investigation being completed by Michael Horowitz, the Inspector
General of the Department of Justice. This report is expected to be delivered
within sixty days, and it promises to be devastating.

The
consequences for Israel of an Obama-Clinton-Kerry uranium/nuclear collusion
with Russia, and indirectly, but knowingly, Iran that has threatens our survival,
could be fatal.

Barry
Shaw is the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at the Israel Institute for
Strategic Studies.